Chapter 637: Expedition and Prestige
The Eastern Army has taken deep roots in the west bank of the Liao River, and within a year, in addition to the army, there are no less than 10,000 households, such a large immigration force, coupled with the defeat of Yu Wenke, finally let Thorpe take time out of the internal affairs to face up to the aggressive trend of this force that was not so powerful in his eyes.
Thorpe was annoyed. Donghu's internal purge was not as easy as he imagined, in fact, from the very beginning, he saw this matter as a little simple, just like the county system that Dayan is now realizing, it is still being pushed under the condition of breaking the muscles and bones, not to mention that Donghu is more backward than Dayan, in terms of system, there will naturally be many backlashes. If it weren't for Miranda's life, her wrists were as sharp as thunder, and she purged a large number of conservative forces with the momentum of sweeping the holes in the pear court, I am afraid that Thorpe is still struggling now, but even so, Thorpe can only be said to have barely controlled the dynasty, and those dissatisfied forces are only temporarily depressed, as long as they are given a chance, I am afraid they will jump out immediately.
Yuwen Ke has been defeated, thousands of cavalry, tens of thousands of foot soldiers buried on the west bank of the Liao River, Thorpe must react immediately, lest this defeat be used by people with intentions, it is in this situation that Thorpe worships Yan Qi as the general, prepares to build a camp in Hetao, and allows Yan Qitong 50,000 cavalry to go out to Hetao, and among these 50,000 cavalry, Thorpe specially transferred 5,000 palace guards.
The palace guards are already the treasures at the bottom of the box in the Donghu Palace, there are only more than 30,000 people, 20,000 for the guards and forests, 5,000 to guard the sacrificial place between the black mountain and the white water, and the other 5,000 to Yan Qi.
Yan Qi, in the Miranda era, was a famous general, commanding a part of the palace guards, and was known as the first general of Donghu by the outside world, but a few years ago. He sent an envoy to Yan State, and on the way back in Liaoxi, he clashed with Gao Yuan, who was still a soldier at the time, and the two were in a fair competition, and Yan Qi's right hand was abolished, and he could no longer hold the knife.
After returning to Donghu, Yan Qi almost disappeared from the public, and even resigned from the position of general of the palace guard. Yan Qi once again showed his sharp fangs.
Under the leadership of Yan Qi, the palace guards cleansed the tribe of the eldest prince Soke with lightning speed, and tens of thousands of people were almost wiped out by Yan Qi's army, and a famous tribe like the Agu Department was also coerced by Yan Qi, Agu Huaien had to kill the old patriarch, purge the old patriarch and a series of people, and then lead the Agu Department to surrender. This battle also caused the Agu tribe to fall from a first-class large tribe to a second-rate tribe in one fell swoop.
Only then did everyone wake up, Yan begged this person, although he could no longer hold the scimitar in his right hand, but in his heart. But another, sharper scimitar had been sharpened. Under Yan Qi's butcher's knife, even if there is no convincing anger in their hearts, everyone has to bow their heads to their ears, and no one wants to become a Soke. I don't want to be the next Agu Ministry.
In November, the first snow of the winter has fallen, and the entire forest is covered in snow. Looking into the distance, it was covered in silver, and under the city of Warin, where Kumamoto led countless blood in the past, tens of thousands of cavalry were divided into dozens of phalanxes and stood silently.
Above the city, Thorpe in a crown sat on a chair, on his left and right, the civil and military officials of Donghu stood solemnly, all with solemn faces, today, is the day when Yan Qi swore to go on the expedition.
Above the city, hundreds of burly men raised a heavy trumpet, blowing hard, with the sound of the trumpet, hundreds of drums sounded at the same time, in the sound of drums, above the open space under the city, a black cow, a black sheep was led out, the wrestler holding the knife shouted, the knife flashed, the huge bull head and sheep head instantly landed, and immediately, the head of the bull and the sheep was enshrined on the incense case facing the city gate, and the Yan beggar with full armor stepped forward, and put incense on the incense case before the incense case, first knock the heaven and earth, and then knock the king, and worship the whole army three times.
Every time Yan begged for worship, tens of thousands of Donghu cavalry raised their arms and shouted, and the sound shook the sky.
After the three bows were over, on the top of the city, Thorpe stood up, walked to the edge of the city wall, and shouted: "Give the flag!" ”
In the middle of the city gate, a palace guard general held high Thorpe's golden banner and galloped out, followed closely by two teams of armored guards. Yan Qi went on the expedition, but Thorpe awarded the king flag, which means that Yan Qi is on behalf of the king, if he wins, it is naturally good, but if he loses, Yan Qi is afraid that he will not be able to come back. Seeing Yan begging to bow down and take the royal flag, tens of thousands of soldiers shouted excitedly, and above the city, I don't know how many people have mixed feelings in their hearts.
How to look at it, Yan Qi will not lose this battle, if Yan Qi wins, it means that Thorpe's throne is as stable as a mountain.
Thorpe's hands were raised, and tens of thousands of soldiers were immediately silent, and all eyes were focused on Thorpe's body at the head of the city at this moment.
"The warriors of Donghu!" Thorpe shouted with his hands held high and with all the strength of his body.
"Hula!" Tens of thousands of soldiers shouted enthusiastically. These soldiers came from various tribes, maybe their leaders, their generals, did not have much reverence for the king of Donghu, some were just afraid, but for these ordinary soldiers, the king of Donghu was the god of these people.
"What should we do with the vicious wolves coming from the West, who have seized our territory from ancient times and the pastures that belong to us?" Thorpe shouted.
"Grab it back!" Tens of thousands of people chanted in unison.
"They killed our comrades, and tens of thousands of Donghu Erlang, who went to crusade against the enemy, are buried on the west bank of the Liao River, what should we do?"
"Kill all the enemies." Tens of thousands of voices roared.
"Well said, warriors, under the guidance of my royal banner, go and kill all the invaders, soak our pastures with their blood, use their corpses as fertilizer for our pastures, and bring back their heads to decorate our walls, I, Thorpe, your king, in the city of Horin, watch you to kill the enemy!"
"Hula!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Looking at the boiling soldiers, Thorpe smiled with satisfaction, some tigers, why worry about the injustice of foreign enemies, why worry about not being able to dominate the world. He looked at Yan Qi under the city and nodded slightly.
Yan Qifei got on the horse, held the king's flag high with his left hand, and danced vigorously. As the king's banner was unfurled in the gale, the shouting army was quiet again in the next moment.
"Sacrifice the flag!" Yan Qi's voice sounded in a low voice.
Sacrificing the flag, it means that there will be bloodshed, tens of thousands of soldiers are suddenly awe-inspiring, in the past, the sacrifice of the flag, are all to kill slaves, as little as tens of hundreds, more than thousands, I don't know this time, how many people will be killed.
The sound of the collision of armor leaves sounded in the city, and hundreds of soldiers walked out with dozens of people in between them, lined up in a neat row under the city, and knelt on the ground according to these people.
Seeing these people who were dragged out and pressed to the ground, there was an uproar in the front military formation, because this time it was not a slave who was dragged out, but a Donghu people, not only Donghu people, but also generals of various tribes, the lowest centurion, and the highest had generals who commanded more than 1,000 people. These people were pressed to their knees, and their whole bodies trembled uncontrollably.
Seeing the uproar in the military array, Yan Qi was furious, stretched out his hand to hand the royal flag to his personal guards, and shouted: "Hold the royal flag to patrol, but if there is any more noise, behead immediately!" ”
The guards responded loudly, galloped with the king's flag, and went back and forth between the various military formations, loudly announcing Yan Qi's military orders, and with the running of the guards, the uproar of the military array stood solemn again.
"Military judge, declare military law!"
"Whoa!" An officer strode forward, and behind him, dozens of big men followed.
"Whoever disobeys the order, kill!" The military judge read aloud.
"Whoever disobeys the order, kill!" Dozens of big men behind the military judge repeated the order in unison, and dozens of people shouted in unison, and immediately made this military order known to the whole army, even the people at the back could hear it clearly.
"Escapees, kill!"
"Those who fail to rescue are killed!"
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With the promulgation of military orders, and under Lin Chengxia, it was already as silent as death, and this time the military orders were promulgated, it was extraordinarily long, and there were dozens of killing orders.
"Declare these people guilty!" After the military order was read, Yan Qi waved his hand and said loudly to the military judge.
The military judge walked up to the first officer who had been pressed to the ground, and loudly announced his guilt and punishment, and with the military judge's word of killing, one of the soldiers immediately drew his scimitar from his waist, and in a flash of the knife, he had already cut off the man's head to the ground.
The military judges came one by one, read out the charges one by one, and every time the word was killed, a human head fell to the ground, and in an instant, dozens of people were killed in a row, and the blood stained the snow under the city red, and it also shocked tens of thousands of proud soldiers. In the eyes of all the soldiers, the crimes of these people are actually nothing, of course, they should be nothing before, most of them are not able to get the point, they contradict the main general, the training is not effective, and the military salary is deducted. But now, they have all been beheaded.
With this group of people being killed, another group of people came out of the city, this time, the military array under the city once again let out an exclamation, but this time, after an exclamation, it quickly quieted down, after all, the dozens of killing orders have just been preached, and one of them, the noisy in the army, beheaded.
But the sound of countless people's heavy breathing still fills this world, because the people who came out this time are too noble, and they are basically the lords of various tribes, including the lords of the tribes who originally had tens of thousands of horses, and the lords of small and medium-sized tribes who have thousands of horses and more than a thousand horses. And the most noble among them is the young patriarch of the Wusu tribe, Wusu Suotan.
The men walked to the bottom of the city, silently took off their shirts, and then fell to their knees in the blood on the ground, and behind them, a soldier with a horsewhip stood upright.
The military judges again shouted and announced their crimes, but the discipline was ineffective, so that the generals were unscrupulous, lawless, and violated military discipline, and each of them was punished with fifty lashes.
As the whistling horsewhip fell on the back, and pieces of blood splashed, all the soldiers were a little dizzy, and they all seemed to feel that today's Donghu seemed to be not quite the same as before. (To be continued......)